Sea Wolf – Leaves In The River (LP Vinyl)
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Alex Brown Church quietly built Sea Wolf into one of indie folk's most enduring projects through the late 2000s and 2010s, with "Leaves in the River" first appearing in 2007 as the debut that introduced his weathered, introspective songwriting to a wider audience. This colored vinyl reissue gives the record a second life for collectors who came to Church's music later in the journey.
Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. When you consider the restless urgency in Alex Brown Church's songwriting, it's easy to connect the attitude of Wolf Larsen, the sinister, swashbuckling genius at the helm of Jack London's 1904 The Sea-Wolf, with the music that borrows the novel's name. The fact Sea Wolf is vehicle for Church's songs - who is not only Sea Wolf's songwriter and singer but also the band's only invariable member - is a story that similarly begins against a Californian backdrop. Born in the small gold rush town of Columbia, Calif., Church's musical memories were shaped by ad-hoc bluegrass outfits playing for tourists on sidewalks of his hometown and platters of Beatles and Willie Nelson on his mom's turntable. The songs of Sea Wolf's first full-length effort, Leaves In The River are awash with longing for distant places visited, lived and loved, and are molded by the geography of his past - the long, winding descent from the Sierra foothills to the hazy shores of Barbary Coast, where Church has always gravitated. And, like the captain in the book, they are resilient, restive, and deceivingly sophisticated.
UPC: 842803002337
Label: Dangerbird Records
Release Date: 4.21.23
Format: LP Vinyl